Complete the sentences with the correct tense or form of the verbs in the box.
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1. Each night I tried ______ long lists of verbs.
2. Would anyone like ______ what this word means?
3. She ______ Spanish when she was living in Mexico.
4. The key to ______ a foreign language is PRACTICE it as much as possible.
5. The word ‘fast’ can ______ as a verb, a noun, an adjective and an adverb.
6. I think it’s very difficult for an Englishman ______ a real American accent.
7. ‘Merci’ in French ______ as ‘thank you’ in English.
8. Some US spellings ______ over the years, e.g. color, harbor, program.
9. “If you ______ every new word you see or hear, you will spend your whole day with the dictionary in your hand.”
10. My French is really hopeless, so I was glad to discover that I could ______ in simple English in Paris.
